1975 Conference on Trans*
Here’s one no one seems to know anything about… but maybe YOU know someone who knows something about this conference.
Scotty Shand
In early August 1978, Scotty Shand, an out gay man, was brutally murdered in Providence. His murder was never solved.
Van Johnson: The Gay Boy Next Door
Newport, RI’s own Van Johnson. (August 25, 1916 – December 12, 2008) https://www.altfg.com/…/van-johnson-the-gay-boy-next-door/
Life’s a Drag
Before RuPaul’s Drag Race, local dragumentarians Lara Sebastian and Deb Thibault (Laura and Deb Thibault of Atomic Blonde Ice Cream) chronicled Sabrina Blaze, Stephen James
Tish, the 95 year old drag queen from Pawtucket
The Last Queen of Greenwich Village Joseph Touchette, who may be the oldest drag queen in New York City, has lived on the corner of
Arthur Evans
Original video footage of Arthur Evans and the 1971 Gay Activist Alliance zap at the NY Marriage License Bureau. As a Brown University student Evans
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman: “It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding
Big J
Anybody ever hear of a guy named Rhode Island Bad Boy “Big J”?
Warhol in Providence
In the summer of 1969, Andy Warhol curated a now infamous exhibit “Raid the Icebox I with Andy Warhol”. The exhibit consisted of an eclectic